しぐれ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of しぐれ – see the following entry.

【時雨】 [noun] a rainshower in late summer, autumn, or winter [noun] (by extension, figurative) shedding tears [noun] Short for 時雨煮 (shigureni), 時雨羹 (shigurekan), 時雨饅頭 (shigure manjū), etc. [noun] Short for 時雨蛤 (shigure hamaguri): clams cooked in the shigureni method with soy sauce; a specialty of Kuwana, Mie Prefecture [verb] to rain a shower [verb] to shed tears [proper noun] name of an 泡盛 (awamori, “Okinawan liquor made from rice or millet”) [proper noun] a Shiratsuyu-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, see Japanese destroyer Shigure (1935) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [proper noun] a female given name [proper noun] a surname

(This term, しぐれ (shigure), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)